On Friday June 10 2005 2:45 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: > More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use > bottom-posting with html mail or rtf text or whatever it is called.
Only in inadequate mailers. Mutt, gnus, kmail and likely most other mailers get it right. If your mailer can't quote properly on a markup message, this is a *BAD* bug and should be treated as such. Write a patch or bug your vendor (and refuse to pay/do business with them until they do what you want). > And while plain text is better in most situations, I have to admit > there are situations where formatted text can be useful. For > example, sometimes you want to include an image at a certain > position in the e-mail, underline, make text bold, color a certain > text, include links without cluttering the text with long http > addresses. Well, positioning and formatting can be easily handled as: * Images can be pointed to using footnotes[1] * _Underline_ * *bold* * /italic/ * And of course this list, which demonstrates bullets. Some MUAs properly understand these conventions and convert them to the appropriate formatting automagically. Try writing a patch or harassing your vendor (again, if they're not giving you what you want, why are you paying them?). > Sadly Lotus Notes doesn't seem to handle it very well, same as > Outlook and the like. Why did you go with a solution that doesn't work? [1] Kinda like this. Then you can make your URLs as long as you want down at the end where they're out of the way. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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